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The State I Am In
Do The Collapse
Nana at Twilight
Your People
Sound Salvation
Lake Monsters
Wax and Wane
Tiny Commotions
The Latest In Anecdote
by Alison Fields
The hotel was gabled stone building, fitted with a conical turret and Gothic Revival windows. We found it on a narrow curving highway, just under the south side of a high truss bridge we crossed accidentally several times because the combination of left-side driving and roundabouts are like kryptonite for my father.
The weather was bleak, even for the Scottish Highlands. We trundled in, dripping, over the threadbare floral carpet. The walls were high, papered over the chair rail in an overgrown baroque garden pattern against a visceral red, and hung with tiny framed prints of Renaissance portraits entirely of pale, terrified looking children.
Dad leaned in, "This place looks like a seedy French cathouse," he said.
I boggled. French cathouse? Who says that?
The desk clerk appeared. He was young and reasonably attractive, which would have already been suspicious enough if he hadn't welcomed us in a voice eerily similar to The Count from "Sesame Street." I expected him to raise a lavender hand and announce Two! Two American Tourists! Ah-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha. Instead, he gave us one room key attached to a bedazzled Victorian murder weapon and and cautioned us about not getting lost upstairs.
"The halls are long and winding. People have a funny habit of getting lost up there." He raised a pointy eyebrow. "Also don't forget to check out our gift shop."
He pointed at a glass-fronted, heavily-carved china cabinet behind us, which was not full of spiders, eyeballs and vials of blood, but hotel-branded mugs and several elderly packages of Walker's shortbread.
Dad thanked him. We went up the stairs, each step creaking in several tones at once, like a choir of souls squealing in anguish. We passed under an oil painting of an sneering albino child with protruberant eyes and a Elizabethan ruff.
"Scale of one to Get The Fuck Out, how haunted do you think this hotel is?" I asked Dad.
"At least Jack Nicholson wasn't running the front desk," said Dad.
"That's because Dracula was running the front desk," I said.
Dad walked past a warped, smaller-than-average door marked FIRE EXIT, padlocked, with scratch marks and gray fingerprints all along the edge. The floor beneath was blackened with ash and smoke damage. We wound down half a dozen, increasingly narrow, increasingly dark corridors to arrive at our room at the dead end beside another ominously marked FIRE EXIT, which opened onto a rainy metal landing with no obvious way down.
I turned on the light switch. Nothing happened. The room was large-ish and peculiarly furnished, two beds, heavy, oversized furniture, ancient lamps that teetered in a phantom breeze.
I went in the bathroom to stare down the clawfoot tub. I turned on the faucet. It sputtered once, but did not issue streams of plasma. "Good news," I said. "I think I can maybe take a bubble bath later without the blood of the innocent being involved."
"Cool." Dad nodded, then noted, reasonably, "But keep in mind, it is still daylight."
This was Dad's and my second trip to the Scottish Highlands, and coincidentally, our second stay in a cautionary tale. Last time around, the bed & breakfast was externally charming, a little stone cottage with ample gardens, run by a polite elderly woman who sounded like a cashmere cardigan might if it decided to invite you up for tea. But beneath the starched doilies beat a dark and wicked heart. The rooms were cinderblock cells two iron camp beds and a high window that wouldn't open. Our bathroom was controlled by a bipolar water heater, whose two temperatures were respectively Glacier and Interior of Volcano. Showering required toggling between the two in a mostly futile attempt to rinse in the few seconds of transition between the extremes. This resulted in a fair amount of shouting and jumping around. Throughout the nights, we endured the sound of Dolores' furious adult son banging down the hallway, threatening to kill people over his cell phone. We'd arrive traumatized to breakfast—a stale toast and weak tea affair, served over a Muzak version of "Rule Brittania" at nightclub volume in a room packed with a probably four-dozen matched sets of terrier figurines. In the corner, Dolores smiled beatifically, stirring her tea in time the music as all her hollow-eyed, terrified prisoners considered whatever horror she had cooked up next.
We survived Dolores, but the experience had left us as wary of gingerbread cottages as Hansel & Gretel after a camping weekend. On the plus, Dad was more open to staying at actual hotels, vetted by multiple sources, and not just offhandedly recommended by Dad's ex-girlfriend's sister who went to Scotland in 1987 for a Wiccan jazz festival. We tipped into luxury. In fact,we'd come to the haunted hotel by the loch from Gleneagles, a five-star resort, where Dad fulfilled a lifelong dream of golf while I'd sat around various hotel pools and bars, surrounded by monsters of less supernatural provenance—gym rat hedge fund managers, jowly Trumpists and Brexiteers, and obliterated bleach-blonde Trophy wives that projectile vomited brunch bellinis all over an impossibly posh pink powder room while yours truly stood, horrified, at the sink (that really happened). I'd been both relieved and disappointed when we decamped for less swanky environs, eager to venture away from manicured golf courses and well-tended garden paths, and set forth on the road to wilder landscapes and less apocalyptic breakfast room chatter.
The bar was empty at 6:30pm, which felt like an ominous note on a rainy Friday evening in the Scottish Highlands, but good for us, as we were able to secure a table beside a roaring fire to watch the sympathetic fallacy blow in over the loch.
The bartender, a pale young woman with an extravagant amount of black eyeliner asked if we would like to make dinner reservations.
I looked around the empty pub, the vacant dining hall, and asked, "Do we need them?"
She nodded and poured me a Guinness. I was pretty sure I hadn't even ordered yet, but, "On the bonus, our vampire bartender not only reads minds, but respects my taste," I said to Dad.
Dad looked out over the water. From his side of the table, I imagined he could make out the close edge of the bridge, but, everything else—the far side of the loch, the road up into Glencoe, the lights of the village—were disappearing behind a great wall of obliterating fog.
I posted something witty about the hotel being haunted on Instagram. A friend wrote back:
Oh Snap! That place is totally haunted. It gave me such bad nightmares I couldn't sleep. Good luck!
Great, I thought. That's not at all going to keep me awake tonight.
"We're 100% going to get eaten by demons tonight" I asked.
"Don't be such a worrywart" said Dad, as an audible groan registered from the fireplace. "I haven't even seen Jeremy yet."
"You know, the guy" he said, making a stabbing gesture.
"Jason?" I asked. "From Friday the 13th?"
"Jack Nicholson in The Shining?"
Dad shook his head.
"Jack the Ripper?"
"No, bud, you know, Jeremy with the mother and the shower."
"Norman Bates?"
"Exactly what I said," said Dad, looking up as the vampire waitress appeared with two bowls of soup.
"For a snack," she said.
"This looks terrific," said Dad.
I watched him have a couple bites. When he didn't die, I tucked in, thinking, Jeremy?
When I was about eight years old, I spent a season convinced that the dark space of wall across from my bedroom door was a gateway to an underworld carnival ("Scarborough Fair," in point of fact, which I misheard as the place "where the dead live and die") that opened after midnight and let pass a wicked cadre of spectral evildoers intent on dragging me back to hell. As an easily distractible, mostly secular child, with psychology-obsessed, spiritual, but not religious parents child I had no real concept of hell, save what my friends told me. And my neighbor Seaneen said that hell was pretty much just like an amusement park for torture. "They have a merry-go-round that peels your skin off," she said. "It's in the Bible. You're probably going there, by the way."
Even at eight, I knew this strained credibility. I didn't even believe in Santa Claus, for Christ Sake. A teleporting death carnival based loosely on a Simon & Garfunkel song? I could already hear my mother's exhausted sigh, her Alison, seriously. But what sounds ridiculous in the light of day can be very convincing when the bathroom door shadows the wall just so on the dodgy side of the wee hours. And all the superstitious woo-woo that, no doubt, comprised 80-90% of my genetic profile had instilled in me a rock-solid believe that if I told anyone what I was afraid of that it would come to pass, so I kept quiet and sat rigid, eyes wide open staring at the wall until dawn.
Eventually, Mom broke down my reserves and got me to admit to the whole portal to the undead thing. We had a good long metaphysical discussion in the mall parking lot, in which clarified the following:
"Hell is a place that is perhaps a metaphor where some people believe that bad people go after they die. But as I said, probably a metaphor. Do you know what a metaphor is?"
"Ghosts are not real. They are way people channel their fears, anxieties, lack of closure, grief, etc. They are real only if you want to believe they are real, otherwise they're just a trick of light and a lot of useless psychological baggage."
Mom's case was compelling. It neatly dovetailed with my long-held suspicion that, among other things, Seaneen was completely full of shit. Hell probably wasn't real. Ghosts almost certainly weren't real. And though Mom certainly didn't intend it, my faith was foundationally eroded in fairies, witches, demons, Jesus Christ, unicorns, werewolves, God, Satan, and astrology, as well. It was a hell of a day. I set forth on the path to godless, blasphemous heathen armed with some bitchin' new literary terms. And I'm pretty I got a hairbow and an Esprit sweatshirt to boot.
All of this is to say, I don't believe in ghosts, at least outside of the whole post-colonial, Southern ghost-haunted landscape as metaphor for the history we cannot escape definition of ghosts. But having spent an adolescence drunk on dumb vampire novels and black eyeliner, I like to hedge my bets. I maintain a veritable pantheon on her mantle despite long-held certainty that the atheists, though boring as all get out, are probably right. I frequently mistake rocks for phantom towers and dead trees for ancient amphibious gods when I go for a run in the park. Sometimes I go to desert for a wedding and end up talking to poems. And it's been a rough couple of years. I've been sick a lot. I was not in top form—physically, emotionally, financially—when I landed in Scotland. On the train between Edinburgh and Stirling I'd picked up a chest cold, that left me, three days later, hacking through the highlands like a tubercular chain-smoker. Things I could typically brush off with a smile and a quip felt threatening. And everybody knows, the person who dies first in a horror movie is usually the guy that says, "I don't believe in ghosts."
I didn't want to be that guy.
After dinner, the vampire bartender poured me a whisky, intuiting my preference for peat. I spent some time in the empty downstairs parlor, trying to discern prophetic warnings in the sounds of the walls settling around me. We'd spent part of the afternoon enduring the fierce weather in Glencoe and I reflected on its mythic scope and brutal history. It was the guests, not the hosts, who'd famously been the murderers in this neck of the woods. I wasn't sure whether the ghosts present were inclined toward any massacre-related karmic reprisals. I didn't think so, but assured the chattering fire that I wasn't related to any Campbells, just in case.
I found Dad upstairs on the sofa, watching a late period "Die Hard" sequel and eating a box of shortbread he'd stolen from Gleneagles. I announced that I'd be taking a bubble bath.
"If I'm not out in an hour, call an exorcist," I said.
He gave me the thumbs up. I stoppered the tub. The complimentary bubble path purported to be "Purple Water"-scented, which sounded like either a bad translation of something innocuous or the sort of thing you'd find at a Superfund site. Whatever the case, it smelled like a place you'd buy incense and Lisa Frank unicorn stickers in 1986. So, nostalgia.
I took a deep breath and stepped in. The floor groaned theatrically. I thought, this would be a hilarious way to bite the farm. With my head propped against the ceramic, I could feel a tremor that seemed to grow more insistent and take on the character of language if I moved any part of my body. It took me about five minutes of sitting frozen in terror before I worked out that it was the sound of the overflow drain. But by that point the pull flush on the toilet was swinging in an invisible breeze and the light over the sink was flickering, so I figured I should cut my losses before I accidentally summoned Cthulhu or something.
I crawled into my bed and turned out the light, as Bruce Willis hollered from the front of the room. I tossed and turned. I had headphones, but couldn't settle with the strobing tv light. After an hour, I rose and found Dad sitting straight up on the sofa, but snoring. I turned off the movie and crawled back into bed.
In the silence, the shadows grew. A silvery light shivered down from the window above my bed, catching the angular ridge of the witch-hatted mountains just to the southeast. I closed my eyes. I heard my own ragged breath. Then I heard the steps and the scratching. A long step. A handful of frantic scratches. A long step. A scuttle of frantic scratches. I sat up carefully, I must be imagining this, but from beneath the crack of the door, I saw an unmistakable shadow. I thought about those ominous scratches on the outside of FIRE DOOR. And I knew those scratches were coming for me.
I considered calling out to Dad, but I didn't want to draw attention. I didn't want to make any sound. I didn't want to open the door. I reached over and grabbed the hotel phone and found that it was not connected to anything. Scratch. Scratch. I made joking plans to ask the ghost about underwear and birth control. Scratch Scratch. I made desperate plans throw things. Scratch Scratch. I made cowardly plans to hide under the blankets. And then, as quickly as it had begin. The shadow moved away. The scratching ceased. The ghost had moved on.
And somehow, despite it all, I finally fell asleep.
I woke at dawn, showered quickly and left Dad in the room when I went down for tea. Outside was dreamy pink, a landscape so exquisite it bordered on trite—Maxfield Parrish meets The Hudson River School. I stepped out into the morning. It was cold and wet, the fog rolling down down the ridges. My cold was worse, but I didn't care, because some things are beautiful enough to make you forget all the bad stuff. I walked across the road to watch a rainbow resolve over the loch until I started to feel the wet ground through my boots.
I told dad I'd wait for him for breakfast, so I went in the parlor, poured some tea and sat in front of the fire. As I sat, I heard a family noise. A step. Scratch Scratch. I froze. Certainly this sort of thing wouldn't happen in daylight? Not with the inn stirring and the smell of coffee and bacon and woodfire in the air. Scratch. Scratch. I looked toward the door and saw Dracula from the front desk staring in at me. He opened the door and in came the spectre, a small black and white cat with extravagant whiskers. He plodded over the carpet, sat politely at my feet, and without encouragement, jumped from the rug onto sofa beside me.
"That's Julio," said Dracula. "He likes the fire in the morning. Do you mind?"
I did not. Julio was quite friendly, very soft. "He's adorable, I said, because he was.
"He's a good hotel cat. He has the run of the place." Dracula smiled, a warm, extremely human smile. "Would you like some more tea?"
I shook my head. He shut the door. Julio nuzzled my hand.
I thought, you, you were outside the door last night.
I said, "Sorry I didn't let you in."
He purred. Which I took to mean, No worries. I had a total blast freaking out the tour group ladies in 112.
Dad and I spent the day wandering the glen. Theoretically together, but experienced individually. That's how our trips are. We share details over dinner later of places the other never saw, me half-listening to the synopsis of his golf game, or the exhibit he studied over for hours. Himself visibly drifting off during my breathless recounting of all twelve miles of history and architecture I managed between curries and cocktails. Most of my travel pictures of dad are of him sitting across the table in pubs and restaurants, distracted, sometimes bemused. His pictures of me are captured from behind, a semi-recognizable blur another quarter of a mile up the side of a heathered glen, or a faceless, rumpled traveler on a rainy sidewalk caught at her least forgiving angle.
We returned the the inn that night, again exhausted and soaked with rain. I let the bartender pick an ale for me and returned the parlor to find Julio waiting by the fire.
My sister called from the US.
"I dreamed about you last night," she said. "I dreamed you got engaged to someone whose last name was Quinn and didn't even tell me until you decided the hold the wedding in that haunted hotel you're staying in. Crazy thing is, in the dream, the hotel wasn't that scary."
I reached over to stroke Julio and heard a family with children come laughing down the stairs. Dracula poked his head in the glass door to give me a wave and confirm that he'd gone ahead and made us a dinner reservation in the dining room.
"The hotel is not really scary at all," I said. "In fact, I'm starting to find it sort of whimsical."
I saw Dad coming down the stairs. I gave Diego a last pet and headed for the lobby. I hardly noticed that the lights flickered and the gaze of the portrait over the fire seemed follow me out into the hall. I barely even heard a whisper, soft as cat paws, saying something that was almost, not quite, but maybe my name when the door closed behind me.
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SCC seniors commit to Iowa collegiate track & fi eld programs
Going from the high school level to the ranks of collegiate athletics is an accomplishment for any senior.
When a senior knows that they are not alone in taking their talents to a college campus, it's something special, even if they are going to different spaces of higher education.
That was what happened for South Central Calhoun senior track & field athletes Mason Merkley, Josh Van Hulzen and Spencer Moon, who officially inked with the University of Dubuque, Dordt College and Simpson College respectively on March 11 in the SCC High School Gymnasium in Lake City.
Joining in on the ceremony was their good friend and fellow classmate Chase McAlister, who committed to run for the Iowa State track & field team in December.
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Hold in the Light - Newsletter
International Day of Peace 2021 Vigil
Intuition and the Creation of a Better World
UN Days & Years Meditation Initiative
UN Calendar
UN Days Meditation
UN Years Meditation
2022 International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture; International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development;
International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development
International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development
International Year of Glass
UN Days November
Individuals and groups can help to make UN Days much more effective through meditation and prayer. On this site there is a meditation in support of the UN Days and information on ways to participate in the UN Days & Years Meditation Initiative
Here you will find information on the UN designated Days during November 2011. Information provided includes some backround, links to the UN site on the Day (where such a site exists), together with key thoughts for reflection.
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PREVENTING THE EXPLOITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WAR AND ARMED CONFLICT
In earlier times it was not uncommon for the environment to be damaged in warfare – crops were destroyed, water supplies poisoned and forests set alight. Modern technologies mean that environmental damage from wars can be far more serious and the consequences more long-term. The damage often extends beyond the limits of national territories and the present generation.
More information from the Dag Hammarskjold Library.
Key thought for reflection
This Day reminds us that it is not only people who suffer in times of war. As universal ethics condition the conscience of humanity, there is a growing sense of responsibility for the well-being of all life on Earth: minerals, plants & animals.
Years 2009-2013 theme: Diabetes Education and Prevention
World Diabetes Day was first observed as a United Nations Day in 2008 - it has been marked by the World Health Organisation and the International Diabetes Federation since 1991 as a day to raise global awareness of diabetes.
Over 240 million people are today living with diabetes - and it is one of the most common diseases of childhood.
The 2007 campaign aims to raise awareness of the rising prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. Early diagnosis and early education are crucial to reducing complications and saving lives. The healthcare community, educators, parents and guardians must join forces to help children living with diabetes, prevent the condition in those at risk, and avoid unnecessary death and disability.
More at www.worlddiabetesday.org.
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR TOLERANCE
Following the United Nations Year for Tolerance in 1995, the International Day for Tolerance was first observed on 16 November 1996. Activities on the Day seek to promote recognition of the need for tolerance and understanding of the practise of tolerance.
"Building tolerance and trust in diverse communities is not done overnight, but takes time and commitment. Building tolerance requires access to education. Intolerance is often rooted in ignorance and fear: fear of the unknown, of the "other", other cultures, religions and nations. Intolerance is also closely linked to an exaggerated sense of self-worth and pride: notions taught and learned at an early age. Therefore in coming years, we need to place greater emphasis on educating children about tolerance, human rights and fundamental freedoms·.
"An International Day for Tolerance can serve as an annual occasion for tolerance education as well as for wider social and political reflection and debate on local and global problems of intolerance. It is a moment to take stock of the progress made during the year and to propose fresh policies to close remaining gaps."
More information from the UN Dag Hammarskjold Library. See also Tolerance.org and UN Alliance of Civilisations project.
Key thoughts for reflection:
If you are thinking a year ahead, sow seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, make people aware. By sowing seed once, you will harvest once. By planting a tree, you will harvest ten-fold. By opening the minds of people, you will harvest 100-fold.
Whether we like it or not, we have all been born on this earth as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of us is just a human being like everyone else: we all desire happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, each of us has an equal right to pursue these goals.
Today's world requires that we accept the oneness of humanity. In the past, isolated communities could afford to think of one another as fundamentally separate and even existed in total isolation. Nowadays, however, events in one part of the world eventually affect the entire planet. Therefore we have to treat each major local problem as a global concern from the moment it begins. We can no longer invoke the national, racial or ideological barriers that separate us without destructive repercussion. In the context of our new interdependence, considering the interests of others is clearly the best form of self-interest.
I view this fact as a source of hope. The necessity for cooperation can only strengthen mankind, because it helps us recognise that the most secure foundation for the new world order is not simply broader political and economic alliances, but rather each individual's genuine practice of love and compassion. For a better, happier, more stable and civilised future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brother- and sister-hood....
H.H. The Dalai Lama
UNIVERSAL CHILDREN'S DAY
Universal Children's Day is usually held on 20 November, the date on which the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and the Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989). Some countries celebrate the Day on different dates. The Day was first recommended by the General Assembly in 1954 when it was envisaged as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children and of active promotion of the welfare of the world's children.
Visit the UNICEF website for information on a vast array of initiatives for children and see the Dag Hammarskjold Library page on the Day..
A child's mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
attributed to Confucius
Every child is a unique human being who deserves to be seen without preconceptions.
Anuradha Vittachi
We stand, I believe, on the threshold of a new era. It is within our power - as never before in history - to shoulder a collective responsibility for the welfare of all children in all circumstances in all countries. This is now a matter of great urgency. The necessary international structures and network of communications are already in place. All it needs now is political will. And courage.
Sir Richard Attenborough
WORLD DAY FOR REMEMBRANCE OF ROAD TRAFFIC VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES
observed on the third Sunday of November
Worldwide, over 3,000 people are killed and 100,000 injured every day on the road. The price in terms of human loss, grief and care is immeasurable.
The Day of Remembrance responds to the great need of road crash victims for public recognition, which is so readily given to victims of other types of disaster. It also acknowledges the work of all those involved in the aftermath of a crash - fire, police and ambulance personnel, doctors, nurses and counsellors.
See the World Health Organisation Guide on the Day. More at roadpeace.org
AFRICA INDUSTRIALISATION DAY
In 1989, 20 November was proclaimed Africa Industrialisation Day by the UN General Assembly. The Day is intended to mobilise the commitment of the international community to the industrialisation of Africa.
Key thought for reflection:
Africa's present is a very difficult one but not a bleak one. For despite the privations, despite the political upheavals and instability, and despite the communal conflicts, the African people have not despaired of overcoming their difficulties. Our people have a dogged optimism of the heart that has seen them through many an adversity in their long history. They most assuredly do not now accept the present state of affairs as a permanent one and they rightly have no belief in it. But if they are to continue in this spirit, then our leadership in all its principal branches must also in its turn rise to the height of our problems.
President Olusegun Obasanjo
WORLD TELEVISION DAY
Since 1996, World Television Day has been celebrated each year on 21st November. The Day aims to encourage global exchanges of television programmes focussing on such issues as peace, co-operation and development.
Every year, around the time of the Day, a United Nations World Television Forum is held at UN Headquarters in New York. This brings together senior leaders from television and broadcasting worldwide.
For more information visit the UNESCO Communication site and check out the information on the 2003 World Television Day.
Electronic circuitry is orientalizing the West. The contained, the distinct, the separate, our Western legacy - are being replaced by the flowing, the unified, the fused.
In 1999, at the instigation of the Dominican Republic, the United Nations declared November 25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This Day has been marked by activists since 1981. It is the date on which three Mirabal sisters were brutally assassinated in the Dominican Republic in 1961.
Worldwide, a quarter of all women are raped during their lifetime. Depending on the country, 25 to 75 percent of women are regularly beaten at home. Over 120 million women have undergone female genital mutilation. Rape has devastated women, girls and families in recent conflicts in Rwanda, Cambodia, Liberia, Peru, Somalia, Uganda and the former Yugoslavia.
'We need to say, "No more and never again" ', states Noeleen Heyzer, the Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). 'If we commit ourselves to creating a world free from violence against women and girls, our children will say we stopped the most universal and unpunished crime of all time against half the people of the earth.'
Visit the UNIFEM website (also here)for more information on the Day, and check out the Amnesty International campaign Stop Violence Against Women. See also Dag Hammarskjold Library.
We must turn towards encouraging a more human, loving standard of behaviour instead of relationships steeped in aggression, competition, exploitation.
Petra Kelly
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
On 29 November, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine. Since 1977 this date, November 29th, has been observed by the United Nations, and by Member States, as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. In December 1999 the General Assembly requested Member States to continue to give wide publicity to the Day.
The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People promotes international support for the achievement by the Palestinian people of their rights, and for a peaceful settlement of the Palestine issue.
Visit the UN web site on the Palestine issue and the Dag Hammarskjold Library page on the Day. For news of inspiring peace initiatives in the region visit the websites of the Palestinian group Jerusalem Center for Women and the Israeli feminist peace organisation Bat Shalom. Together the two groups work as partners for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace through the Jerusalem Link, established in 1994. See also a review of literature on the alternative peace process known as the Geneva Accord . See also the outstanding site on the Spiral Dynamics work in the Middle East, Center for Human Emergence Middle East.
We women for peace fear the terrible consequences for both people and land of this seemingly endless struggle. We have no choice but to work together, to help ourselves and each other. We organize public activities and publish our political statements and visions; we raise our voices to those who are eager to learn and those who are not.
The majority of people are unaware of the reality of the situation. Both sides have very real fears and worries which must be addressed in order to convert them to feelings of trust and partnership. Together we have to reread our histories and to reexamine our political positions. We must have the ability to criticize and to put forward our vision of a common future. This is possible only through a readiness to rethink and the courage to take action.
It is also possible only if the international community upholds the responsibilities accruing from the peace process in order to help build trust, stability and economic development. The survival of one side is inextricably linked with the survival of the other: peace and security can only be assured when these concepts apply to both people. We appeal in particular to the people and governments in Europe and the United States since your countries and people bear a great portion of the responsibility for the misery we are currently experiencing. Help us to believe in a love of life, to believe in hope, because we cannot afford the luxury of hopelessness.
Dr. Sumaya Farhat Naser, Director, Jerusalem Center for Women
2011 is being observed by United Nations as: Year of Forests; Year for People of African Descent; Year of Youth : Dialogue & Mutual Understanding (August 12 - August 11 2011); Year of Chemistry. Check out meditations for all these themes and a full list of dates for the 2011 UN calendar.
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Salida School District » About the District » Activities » Activity News » Parking In Buena Vista During Construction
Parking in BV for Football During Construction
Memo From Buena Vista updated:
Salida High School Football will play Buena Vista High School on Saturday Sept. 21, 2019 with a 1pm kick off. BVHS has advised us of the following:
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS TO FOOTBALL FIELD- For access to the BUENA VISTA football field, spectators will enter at the east end of the field off of Mayer Avenue. The only available parking lots on school property are the paved parking lot south of the gym and the dirt lot in front of the high school. Spectators please walk east on Marquette Ave and turn left (north) on Mayer Ave to the entrance.
BVHS will have staff on site to assist in parking in the areas west of the high school along the railroad tracks. Fans may also want to consider parking closer to town and walking to the field.
***SHUTTLE FROM PARKING NORTH OF MAIN STREET AND RAILROAD: BVHS will provide two buses and a suburban to transport spectators from the parking lot north of Main Street and Railroad. To access this parking lot, take Hwy 24 north to stop light at Main Street, turn right (east) and proceed to stop sign and then turn left (north). Transportation will run at 11:45 till 1:00 and then after the game to return spectators to the parking lot. Buses will pick up at the same location they drop off at the game field entrance.
*** Please do not attempt to enter near the gym complex or construction zone.


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Security has been ramped up in the town and the surrounding area, which has some 26,000 residents. The identities of the attackers and their possible links to the insurgency in southern Russia are being investigated. For the instant there is no other information about the motivation of attackers. Schools and day care centers in Novoselitskoye were evacuated. Even unexpected, this attack was not a totally new fact. The Stavropol region is close to the North Caucasus, where an Islamic insurgency has simmered for years. In Dagestan, the center of the insurgency, many of the bombings and attacks have targeted police and other officials. Dagestan also has proved to be a fertile recruiting ground for the Islamic State group. The attack could raise security concerns for the 2018 World Cup, since the Stavropol region will host four training bases for national soccer teams.
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Once the design is finalized, the files are sent to the CAD/CAM system for fabrication of the restoration to the exact specifications of the design. Use of CAD/CAM technology increases efficiency and accuracy, and can often reduce the overall number of patient visits needed.
Digital x-rays reduce the amount of radiation needed as compared to film x-rays. The improved diagnostic capability of digital x-rays and the ability to view the x-rays on a computer screen allow the patient to better understand and follow treatment. Digital x-rays are instant; there is no longer a need to develop the film. Digital x-rays save time and increase patient care. It's also a very green technology. By eliminating film, developer, and chemical waste it is better for you and the environment!
The use of specialized operating microscopes means that the doctor is able to get a detailed look at the work they are doing during all phases of your endodontic treatment. The additional magnification and illumination allow them to work with great precision and see small details such as calcified canals and fractures. We are able to more accurately diagnose and treat the patient using a dental surgical microscope to improve the potential outcome of the treatment from "good" to "excellent." Further, some microscopes may be equipped with high-resolution video and digital photography allowing the doctor to enhance patient communication and document treatment.
Using Electronic Medical Records, our practice can quickly and accurately access patient information to provide the utmost in patient care. This helps to ensure patient confidentiality as well as reduce the need for paper. Using a digital format allows for quick access to your information when needed for insurance records yet provides a secure filing system.
An intra-oral camera combines the latest video technologies with dental care. Both the patient and dentist can see detailed images of the teeth and mouth in real time. With an intraoral camera, you can better understand what is happening in your mouth and review the status of your oral health.
Used for periodontal (gum) and osseous (bone) surgery, these handpieces are gently and meticulously used to remove harmful bacteria without requiring invasive measures.


Perth and Kinross Council has ruled itself out of tempting the TRNSMT festival to Perth, saying nowhere under its management is suitable to host it.
It comes after the local authority was accused of not doing enough to draw major music festivals to Perth and Kinross by local MP Pete Wishart, who said he'd had "a number of meetings" with DF Concerts supremo Geoff Ellis in an effort to do just that.
The SNP MP made his remarks after Mr Ellis revealed he was considering moving TRNSMT away from Glasgow to avoid having to pay an "event tax" being considered by the city's council.
Despite suggesting Dundee and Stirling as potential venues, he failed to mention Perth and Kinross as a possible destination despite the area's long association with T in the Park.
Mr Ellis pulled the plug on that event after its highly controversial move from Balado to Strathallan Castle proved disastrous with three drug-related deaths occurring in 2016 as well as widespread reports of anti-social behaviour being exhibited across its campsite emerging afterwards.
Mr Ellis was quoted two weeks ago as saying: "Stirling and Dundee are very keen for us to make use of their assets and the rental prices they're offering us are far less than Glasgow.
Reacting to Mr Ellis failing to mention Perth and Kinross, Mr Wishart was then quoted as saying: "I have had a number of meetings with Geoff Ellis about the possibility of bringing a future music festival to Perthshire and I am encouraged that he is still looking at various options.
But a council spokesperson this week told the PA TRNSMT was "clearly" different to anything it had ever hosted before and furthermore, parks under its management were too small to contain such a gathering.
The spokesperson also dismissed any suggestion it could work with DF Concerts to reevaluate sites previously scouted for T in the Park to see whether they were suitable for TRNSMT.
Research done on behalf of the council by Bell Ingram back in 2011 concluded sites at Middleton and south of Kinross were most suitable to host T in the Park while Strathallan Castle was criticised for being "too remote" with "poor" accessibility from the A9.
The PKC spokesperson, who also highlighted the success of the BBC's Biggest Weekend, said: "We have a proven history of hosting events and festivals of all sizes within the Perth and Kinross area - from boutique festivals such as Solas to the extremely popular Rewind Festival, and of course our significant past experience on T in the Park, held in a rural setting with a significant camping element.
"TRNSMT is clearly run on a different model and in an urban setting and this was a business decision by the operators DF Concerts so it is not possible to make a direct comparison between the two festivals.
"The large parks under the council's management do not immediately lend themselves to an event of the type/scale of TRNSMT. .
"The 2011 study being referred to was an initial high-level investigation of possible alternative site options for T in the Park to allow it to remain in Perth and Kinross.


A large clam shell with gold interior works as a decorative bowl with beachy charm. Position on an entryway table or living room table to hold objets or other important items.
Clams spend most of their lives partially buried in the sand of the ocean floor, and they can be found in seas across the globe. Some clams have life cycles of only one year, while at least one may be over 500 years old.


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You can try different clothes on with the bras to see how you look: different bras provide different shapes and you may need different sizes in different styles. How easy is it to try different bras in a shop, if the ones you took into the changing room don't fit? Do you take different tops from home with you to try on when you are trying the bras? Do you feel self conscious about trying bras on in a shop?
If you are about to have, or have just had a baby, you will not want to be nursing bra shopping in the high street stores. Small changing rooms with a big bump?! Where do you leave the baby? What if the baby needs a feed? Have you recovered from the birth? I find that many mums do not feel they are given much choice in bras in the high street, in a large enough range of styles and sizes, or that the sales assistants have much training or experience in fitting nursing bras.
Have you recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and are due to have a mastectomy? Have you had a mastectomy but now don't know how to find a bra that will help your body to heal? Do you want a bra that makes you feel 'normal' again? Are you undergoing chemotherapy and feel unable to go out shopping? With the emotional rollercoaster ride that having a breast cancer diagnosis brings, do you really want to be heading out bra shopping?
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In all of the above cases, I can help! I understand how bras fit and make you look and feel and how sometimes it is difficult to find the right size or style for you. I've had three children, so know how your body changes through pregnancy and breastfeeding. I've seen many ladies at different stages of their breast cancer treatment. I visit those unable to get out of the house or are in a care home. I've fitted teenage girls who feel uncomfortable with moving on to the next stage in their development.
I specialise in all of these different areas because these are times in your life when you may be feeling a bit insecure or vulnerable. I try to make the home fitting as relaxed and as comfortable for you as possible, working around your needs. I want you to be happy and comfortable in the bras that you buy, knowing that they are right for you, whatever your circumstance happens to be. So please get in touch if you would like to arrange a fitting for yourself, or someone you know who needs my help.


The historic mission house can be visited. It is usually always open. If not, you can acquire the key next door at the pastor's house. Tel 063-283140. However: The exponates about the mission history have been brought to the Luederitz museum and can be seen there.
In Bethanien the momentous contract between Adolf Luederitz and the Nama Elder Joseph Fredericks was signed on the 1st of May, 1889. More detailed information on our Luederitz pages. This building falls under monument protection and is open to visitors on weekdays from 8am to 5pm. It lies in David Fredericks Street. Tel 063-283059.
Bottom left: Lutheran chruch in Bethanie. Top left: Missionary Schmelen.
South-west of Helmeringhausen between C13 and D707 lie the Tiras Mountains, largely unknown to general tourism. The bizarre massif of dark granite borders a wide plain and is very impressive. A couple of farms have joined to form the Tiras Mountain Conservancy, more than a hundred thousand hectares in size. They offer mountain hikes (also guided hikes), camping and accommodation on a small scale.
Friendly guesthouse in central position. Modern ensuite doublerooms with aircon; DSTV, garden, pool, tours, homecooked meals.


The value of commercial properties that sold for at least $2.5 million in the United States reached a total of more than $562 billion in 2018. This was an increase of 15 percent compared with 2017. It was also not too far from the record amount of nearly $570 billion that was set back in 2015.
Property prices have also risen by more than 6 percent from one year to the next and are currently 30 percent higher than 2007 levels. Prices could have skyrocketed even more had people not been concerned about increasing interest rates. However, the recent announcement by the Federal Reserve that it plans to keep the rates steady may help to bolster the market in the near future.
With the commercial real estate market faring well over the past couple of years, investors may understandably be excited about being active in the market this year. However, navigating deals involving properties with commercial leases can be complicated. Unfortunately, the wrong move can end up costing an investor a deal or have negative long-term financial implications for him or her. An attorney in Los Angeles can provide investors with the direction they need to complete commercial property deals in the most personally beneficial manner possible.


Only 200 metres separate Camping de Lakens from the wide beach of Bloemendaal. The perfect place for a walk in the fresh air, for lounging or swimming, with plenty of space for the children to run around, build sand castles or find shrimps. And what about yourself? You will find total peace and quiet, if that's what you are after.
Book a massage, beauty treatment, manicure or pedicure. Or go to the beach for kiting, endless walks or a run. Salty sea spray, head in the wind and a clear, empty mind. For that, the beach is very effective in the autumn too!
Animals are not allowed at the campsite.


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Q: How to speed up file change from host into docker container? My host is MacOS with DockerDesktop. I have a Debian container in which a PHP application is running. Parts of the PHP application are part of the docker image, the parts I am still working on are shared with the host through a volume. Think of
docker run -td --name my-app -v /Users/me/mycode:/var/www/html/phpApp/variableParts
My problem: When I save a change on the host it takes some 10-15 seconds until this change becomes available to the containerized app. So (1) after every save it takes (too) long waiting for the code to be available and (2) I cannot be sure whether I already see the new code running or still the old one.
My problem is not that the execution of the application is slow (as some sources in the web suggest), in fact it is quite fast. My problem is that the time for the change to propagate from the host to the docker container is too long. Earlier I developed and had the code from the remote server NFS-mounted on my developing machine and there it was blazing fast.
Is there any way I can reasonably speed this up? Or does a different workflow make more sense? Would mounting the code parts I want to edit from the container (as NFS server) to the host (where the editor runs) make sense?
My workflow consists of many small adaptations to be made to the PHP code, so waitint 10-15 seconds after every edit is a no-go.

A: I have used Docker on Mac, and have seen edits to a bind mount propagate to the Docker container in under a second, so I think Docker is not to blame here.
Instead, I would look at any caching that PHP is doing. Is PHP reloading your code from disk on every page view, or does it cache it? For example, the opcache feature of PHP keeps a pre-compiled version of your PHP code in memory, and occasionally checks if that version is still up to date. Take a look at your php.ini, and in particular what opcache.revalidate_freq is set to.

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Q: How to merge data into single output Okay here is what I have. How would I get the three identical wishbone plays to merge and sum their data?

Yes the data is already sorted by formation. I don't mind inputing it each time as I will probably add to the list several additional plays and formations. I just want to merge the times called together and the yards gained together. So the FSU RB1 OT should only be one cell and say 5 for times called and 18 for yards gained. I can do math in my head mostly to figure out the average. Sorry for not being specific enough.

A: A nice solution for this is to use a pivot table. A pivot table allows you to summarize data from your table. It can be used to keep a running total for each play type and calculate the average yards per play. With a pivot table, your data entry can be simple -- just add the new data to the end of the table and let the pivot table update the totals for you.
To set up your pivot table do the following:

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*Select your entire table, including headers. Go to the Home ribbon and select Format as Table and choose any visual format for your data entry table. The reason for doing this is that it assigns a name to the table (probably Table1 by default), and the name will refer to the entire table even if you add new data. You can find the name of the table by going to the Table Tools Design ribbon and looking under Properties.

*Next, select the entire table, and go to the Insert ribbon and click Pivot Table.  A dialog will appear asking you which source data to use and where to place the pivot table. Make sure the source is set to the name of your table, e.g., Table1. I would advise placing the pivot table on a new sheet, but you may put it on the same sheet if you like -- just make sure it's off to the side out of the way from your raw data. After choosing your output location, click OK.

*You will be presented with something like this:

You'll use the Field List on the right to set up your pivot table. For your particular needs, you'll want to drag and drop Play from the field list into the section labeled Row Labels. Also, drag and drop Times Called and Yards Gained into the Values section. By default these will show up as Sum of Times Called and Sum of Yards Gained, which is exactly what you want. This will result in the table you're trying to achieve.

Any time you've added new data and want to update the summary, just go to the pivot table, right-click anywhere inside the table and choose Refresh.
If you'd like to include the average yards per play in the pivot table, you will need to create a calculated field. To do this click somewhere inside the pivot table and go to the PivotTable Tools Options ribbon and click Formulas > Calculate Field....

Here you'll create a calculated field, called something like YPP. Define the field as
= 'Yards gained'/ 'Times called'

Click Add and then click OK. Your pivot table will now include a Sum of YPP field. This should display the average yards per carry for each play.


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Accurate analysis results, repeatable experiments and productivity are indispensable in any laboratory or research facility. Quiet operation and low heat emission represent further key factors for a decent working environment. With the help of vacuum you can meet all these requirements. Irrespective of whether you use it for mass spectrometry or beamline generation, when it comes to vacuum technology, Busch is the right partner for you.
Productivity is highly dependent on reliable and efficient instruments and devices. Vacuum pumps, components and systems needed to create the right operating conditions for countless experiments and processes are no exception. Busch is known for its reliable and efficient vacuum technology in all industries and extends this expertise to your laboratory or R&D facility.
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OpenStack User Survey
Increase in multi-cloud strategies sees higher OpenStack adoption
By Kai Ping Lew, Mon 6 Nov 2017
Surveys conducted by five organizations, including the OpenStack Foundation User Survey, document acceleration of OpenStack adoption across industries and regions, and attest to the open source software's role in multi-cloud environments, NFV and IoT/edge computing.
In the OpenStack User Survey, respondents indicated that users from 48% of deployments are also interacting with another cloud. Additionally, the diversity of users was demonstrated in year-over-year analysis showing growth among non-IT, mainstream industries, including significant growth among the financial and government industries, as well as growth in research, retail and telecom.
A Cloudify-sponsored survey of nearly 700 enterprise cloud professionals found that OpenStack was the most widely deployed cloud infrastructure. Results also upheld the multi-cloud trend demonstrated in the User Survey, reporting that 51% of organizations are deploying more than one cloud and the second most popular two-cloud combination is AWS and OpenStack.
In a recent SDxCentral report, 87% of respondents said that OpenStack would be used to manage edge infrastructure.
A Heavy Reading survey focused on telecom operators found that 96% of those who already deploying an NFV strategy find OpenStack essential or important.
A SUSE-sponsored survey of more than 1,400 senior IT professionals found that OpenStack is in production in 23% of organizations (up from 15 % in 2015). A total of 82% are using or plan to use OpenStack in the future.
The OpenStack Foundation's tenth User Survey was released today at the OpenStack Summit in Sydney.
Nearly 1,000 unique OpenStack deployments were completed in 2017, a 95% increase compared to 2016.
Nearly half (48%) of the survey respondents reported that users of their OpenStack deployment also interact with another cloud, demonstrating the multi-cloud trend highlighted by recent OpenStack case studies published by Workday, GE Healthcare and Adobe Advertising Cloud.
Surge of OpenStack adoption and deployment
SUSE's survey found that OpenStack is in production in 23 % of organizations (up from 15% in 2016). In addition, 37% are testing and 22% expect to do so in the next 12 months, meaning a total of 82% are using or plan to use OpenStack.
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The OpenStack User Survey reports growth of users among mainstream, non-IT industries, indicated by a significant increase in responses among finance industry and government users from 2016 to 2017, in addition to increases in industries like telecom and research.
OpenStack User Survey participation grew significantly in Asia, and particularly in China, which comprised 17% of overall respondents in 2017 as compared to 5% in 2016.
Likely contributing to this increase was the availability of the survey in seven additional languages for the first time, which enabled more users in Asia to take the survey.
Accelerated use of multi-cloud strategies
Cloudify reports that half of the organizations that responded to its survey are managing more than one cloud, with close to 9% of them deployed across five clouds or more.
The most popular two-cloud combination is AWS and Azure, suggesting that organizations are using public/public multi-clouds in order to avoid vendor lock-in.
The second most popular two-cloud combination is AWS and OpenStack.
According to SUSE's survey, the preferred cloud services for business-critical workloads are private cloud (43%) and hybrid cloud (42%).
The use of cloud is expected to grow over the next two years; this is particularly the case for hybrid (66%) and private cloud (55%), with 36% seeing public cloud growing in this timeframe.
Eighty-nine percent of SUSE's survey respondents would ideally like to go from development in public cloud to production in their own private cloud.
Key reasons are security (63%), data sovereignty (52%) and performance issues (52%), followed by cost (30%).
OpenStack considered essential for NFV and Edge computing
According to Heavy Reading, a large majority (84%) of CSPs say that OpenStack is essential or important to their company's success.
CSPs who are already implementing their NFV and cloud strategies are even more positive, with 96% and 85% respectively saying it is essential or important.
In SDxCentral's 2017 Edge Computing and MEC Report, 87 % of respondents selected OpenStack as the software that will be used to manage edge infrastructure. Verizon is among the users who are deploying OpenStack at the edge.
Containers lead the way
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Nearly half of all deployments reported using a PaaS or CaaS tool to manage applications on top of their OpenStack clouds, and Kubernetes remains the top application framework on OpenStack.
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Czech Human Rights Minister: We must never forget the Nazi atrocities against millions of Jews, Roma and other human beings
Prague, 26.1.2015 20:33, (ROMEA)
Czech Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportuntities and Legislation Jiří Dienstbier (PHOTO: Petr Vilgus, Wikimedia)
Tuesday, 27 January 2015 marks 70 years since the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place that embodies and symbolizes the horrors of WWII to the entire world. That is why 27 January is Holocaust Victims' Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Day here.
Czech Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation Jiří Dienstbier believes it is very important to continue to mark this day as an eternal day of remembrance. Nazi atrocities against millions of Jews, Roma and other human beings must never be forgotten.
"Commemorating the horrors of the concentration camps and honoring the memories of those who perished there and those who survived them is our moral obligation. To do so should not just be an expression of participation and respect, but also a warning to everyone who has already forgotten this suffering and everyone who is attempting to belittle this suffering that cost the lives of millions of human beings and left an indelible mark on European history," Dienstbier said on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"In all of the camps at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex, at least 1.3 million human beings lost their lives during the war, the vast majority of them Jews (almost one million). As many as 70 000 Poles, 20 000 Roma, 15 000 Soviet prisoners and roughly 15 000 members of other nationalities, including Czechs and Slovaks, also died there. Most of the victims died in the gas chambers, where the Nazis gassed them to death with Zyklon-B, while others died of exhaustion or hunger, or were individually executed, or died of disease in the absence of medical care. There was unimaginable suffering leading to the deaths of prisoners used as subjects in monstrous 'medical' experiments. In addition to Auschwitz, however, there also existed many other camps that were components of the so-called Final Solution, a coherent plan that elevated one race over all others. That, too, must never be forgotten," Dienstbier said.
For that reason, the minister said he believes that in addition to commemorative ceremonies, the topic of the Holocaust must also be publicized through the public broadcast media, in public spaces and in the schools. "I appreciate the fact that the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Bohuslav Sobotka, will attend the gathering to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland on Tuesday, 27 January 2015 together with other members of the Czech Government and world leaders," Dienstbier emphasized.
Czech Prime Minister Sobotka will be accompanied in the Czech delegation to Oświęcim by Czech Labor and Social Affairs Minister Michaela Marksová, Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnický and Czech Culture Mnister Daniel Herman. That commemorative ceremony will also be attended by the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Poland, Jakub Karfík.
Several guests of the international "Let My People Live!" forum taking place today at Prague Castle will also join the Czech PM's trip to Oświęcim. The representatives of many states from around the world will attend the commemoration there to honor the memories of those who did not live to see the liberation of the concentration camp and those who suffered from its trauma for the rest of their lives; several people who survived the horrors of the extermination camps will also attend.
Press release of the Czech Ministry for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation, translated by Gwendolyn Albert
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Free internet? Wireless hotspots available at Manitowoc library Tuesday
Kristin Stoeger
For more than a century, the citizens of Manitowoc have had the ability to check out books from Manitowoc Public Library. Over time, this has grown to include music CDs, DVDs, audio books and electronic resources. On Tuesday, MPL adds a new 21st-century device for the public to check out and take home from the library.
Now, you'll be able to check out the Internet for free. Or more accurately, you'll have access to a device that allows you to bring the internet into your homes and on-the-go.
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A quick explanation ...
As I mentioned last week, the Friends of Manitowoc Public Library has generously agreed to fund wireless hotspots for purchase and circulation at Manitowoc Public Library.
With the Library Board's support, we have moved forward with the purchase of five wireless hotspots. We are in the midst of cataloging them, and they will be ready for circulation beginning Tuesday at the library.
Wireless hotspots — also known as mobile hotspots or Wi-Fi hotspots — are devices that allow access to the internet.
A hotspot is a physical location from which people may obtain internet service, typically using Wi-Fi technology via a wireless local area network (WLAN) using a router with access to an internet service provider.
Essentially, our pocket-sized devices provide Wi-Fi access anywhere within the United States where a carrier signal exists. And it works on the 4G LTE network for fast downloads!
The wireless hotspots for circulation provide free Internet access for up to 10 mobile devices of your choice, such as laptops, smartphones or tablets.
Wireless hotspots can be found all throughout cities nowadays. You don't normally see the physical hotspot, but typically see the options when connecting to the internet. These hotspot venues include cafés, airports, hotels and, of course, your local library.
Unfortunately, when you leave that café or library, the internet hotspot access stays in that location. The unique aspect with the mobile hotpots we are providing for circulation is that the hotspot provides you private access to your own wireless signal wherever you go. Others can see the hotspot, but cannot connect without the password provided with each hotspot.
As you move from place to place, the internet signal follows you, and each hotspot holds a charge for up to eight hours.
The five wireless hotspots available at MPL will be held at the first-floor service desk — three of which will allow holds to be placed on them, while the remaining two hotspots will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
We will place a sign on the service desk when we have a hotspot available for checkout. The hotspots circulate for three weeks each with no renewals. Pick up and return of the hotspots are handled at Manitowoc Public Library service desk only — they cannot be picked up at other locations nor returned through the outside return.
Our wireless hotspots are easy to use as well. You simply press the power button, wait for it to turn on and connect to your mobile device. That's all the technical savvy it takes!
The password for each device is provided upon checkout. A charging cord also circulates with the device should you need to charge it. The blue LED indicator on each hotspot lets you know when it's on and connected to the internet.
These devices are exceptionally handy, and we're very excited to be providing access to digital information via the hotspots.
We want to thank the Friends of Manitowoc Public Library for financially making this possible and the Library Board of Trustees for its support in providing these new resources.
So, mark the date on your calendars — wireless hotspots go live for circulation at MPL on Tuesday.
Kristin Stoeger is library director at Manitowoc Public Library.


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